I was wondering if anyone doesnt feel that nursing school is as HORRIBLE as people make it out to be? Im a little worried that maybe Im taking things a little too lightly. When I first started nursing school, I was ALWAYS upset and nervous. My teachers were horrible and I hated group work. After my first set of clinicals, I was fine. I mean, I still get a little nervous thinking about my first set of clinicals for a class, but nothing like what I read on here. Im in the "make you, break you" class right now (for our school its Principles of Nursing) and I dont feel like Im having any trouble at all. Sure its a lot of work, but nothing I cant handle with a bit of studying. Of course Im a little aprehensive about giving shots and doing IV's, but again, nothing compared to what Im reading on here. Im not saying that I'm smarter than any one or anything like that, I know things can get taken out of context on here. I just want to know if anyone else is at ease in nursing classes besides myself, because if Im alone maybe Im missing something. I dont want to be stressed out and worried, but if everyone else is and Im not, I must be the problem; if that makes sense.
:uhoh21: I might be wrong but I think how easy a person thinks something is has alot to do with WHERE they go to school. Of course there are all the factors such as how hard they study and how etc. At our school only a little more then half the people who started graduated in the class ahead of ours. I have one of the highest averages in our class and my average is barely an A. They do not do testing reviews in our classes. They just give you chapters and wish you luck. So to answer the question I am sure some people don't think its hard but the ones that do might just go to a school much like mine :uhoh21:
I go to a school like yours. My Principles teacher doesnt do reviews and goes through her notes a million miles an hour. I catch about 3/4 of what the woman is saying, most of the time. I just had to switch clinicals bc the instructor I had didnt go OVER anything that she should have. We had to go over meds and write out a "med sheet" type thing; nobody knew how to do it. The woman didnt even go over our answers to let us know if we were right or wrong. And we had no way to get ahold of her, bc she refused to give out her contact info! We BREIFLY went over injections, so I havent even practised that at all. We had to know about 14 chapters of material for the lecture test, and the notes only covered a half of that; we have a test every 2 weeks. Its an HUGE workload and I was teaching myself the labs. BUT, its not that hard/stressfull to me. I think some people just handle large amounts of stress better than others. Plus, it depends on what you are happy with. Im not THAT smart, I only got a B+ on my first principles test. I just dont let the stress get to me and and think to myself "B+, isnt great, but its the 4th highest grade in the class of about 30". Going from an A student to an A-B student is a hard adjustment for some ppl, Im glad I did ok with it. I had one lady in my class breakdown bc she got an 84% on a test, she was use to at least 92%.
Personally myself I didn't LPN that hard. I was in a one year pn program and I made dean's list first semester and finished with a 4.0 the second and third semester. I am now in an accelerated ADN program and I am doing just fine but I am finding this year harder. I think what's harder though is that we seem to be covering things a lot faster. I am having a hard time with time management and studying this year. I think that it has more to do with burn out than anything. I am really looking forward to semester break.
First and second semester were really easy for me, and the content was fundamentals, maternity, and med/surg. Now that I'm in third semester, the content is ortho/neuro, cardiac/respiratory, and pediatrics. It's a little harder, but nothing to write home about. The problem is that there is just sooo much more to learn, and of course everything is just building off of the previous content we've had. If you didn't retain the first two semesters, then 3/4 semesters (for ADN) will probably be difficult. Anyhow, I am studying for our cardiac test now and it sucks because there's 120 pages of just lecture content for a 26 question test. I don't know if that's normal for other nursing schools or not, but I think how easy/hard it is has a lot to do with the content you're being tested on and how your school tests you.
i don't think nursing school is hard persay. i just think there is an abundance of information that we need to learn in such a short period of time that it makes it overwhelming at times.
Nursing school was definately difficult, time consuming, ect.... Just ask the
75-85% of students from my nursing program who don't make it. If I found it easy, the first thing I would do is check my schools NCLEX pass rate. If they had a good pass rate then I wouldn't worry about it being too easy, I would consider myself blessed, very fortunate, and definately among the minority.
*lisa*
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:uhoh21: I might be wrong but I think how easy a person thinks something is has alot to do with WHERE they go to school. Of course there are all the factors such as how hard they study and how etc. At our school only a little more then half the people who started graduated in the class ahead of ours. I have one of the highest averages in our class and my average is barely an A. They do not do testing reviews in our classes. They just give you chapters and wish you luck. So to answer the question I am sure some people don't think its hard but the ones that do might just go to a school much like mine :uhoh21: